The California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans meets this week, December 7-8, starting at 9:00 a.m. Pacific on each day. Lisa Holder, EJS Of Counsel, is a member of the task force as an appointee of Governor Gavin Newsom. Complete information on the task force can be found at https://oag.ca.gov/ab3121.ContinueContinue reading “Dec. 7-8: California Reparations Task Force Continues Hearing from Experts”
Author Archives: Keith Kamisugi
RESCHEDULED: How to Save Our Democracy
The event that was originally scheduled for Tuesday, October 12, needs to be rescheduled. The House is being called back to DC to vote next week on the recently passed Senate legislation to prevent a default on the national debt. Unfortunately, the vote has been scheduled at the time this event was supposed to takeContinueContinue reading “RESCHEDULED: How to Save Our Democracy”
Calif. Dept. of Education Ignores Clear Patterns of Discrimination in School Discipline
A lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court on October 6, 2021, by NLSLA, Equal Justice Society, and pro bono counsel Mayer Brown LLP seeks to force the California Department of Education to increase monitoring of discipline data, expand reporting requirements to account for transfers, and investigate and address discriminatory discipline. Even as publiclyContinueContinue reading “Calif. Dept. of Education Ignores Clear Patterns of Discrimination in School Discipline”